Sgambati Toccata Op 18 No 4 in A flat played by Fanny Davies on the Welte-Mignon piano

Original performance recorded on piano roll by the Welte company in 1909, probably in London.

This video recorded on the Steinway-Welte model B in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg, Germany, May 2011. This is the Welte factory's demonstrator piano, once owned by the system's inventor Edwin Welte. Curator Gerhard Dangel and maintainer Hans-W Schmitz keep this historical instrument in fine playing form (and can both be seen here).

The last section of the roll was not recorded thanks to lack of memory!

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[ocopicio]

TOO FAST!

[risingchads]

@ocopicio - Welte rolls are fixed speed - at least they are supposed to be, and have only a small range of adjustment compared to other player systems - so this may well reflect the original performance. Hard to be sure without something to compare with.

[pertinaxe2]

The noise at the beginning is the starting tram

[WelteMax]

well, indeed the fixed speed is (for welte)50herts exactly, so it is around the wright speed))

[pianolaunderground]

the pianist was Fanny Davies

[pianolaunderground]

this definately is Op.18 No.4 in A-flat :)